A Day of Remembrance and Celebration: The History of Memorial Day in Brooklyn
Briefly

We celebrate Memorial Day with food, festivities, and perhaps even a day at the beach, on the semi-official start of the summer season.Some of us plan to go shopping, taking advantage of the Memorial Day sales at practically every large department and discount store.Because the experience of war, losing someone in war, military service, or even having a relative in the service is so foreign to most of us nowadays, it's hard to conceive of this convenient holiday on the last Monday in May being anything more than just a blessed day off, a break in the schedule of hard work with which we are all too familiar.
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